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Posted by Brad Weeks, MD on May 27, 2010
I scream, you scream.
I love ice cream. Don’t you? The true American genius. An aristocratic food. As American as the apple pie beside which it plops in regal splendor ‑ a la mode. To even categorize it as food is somehow inadequate. It resides alone as the epitome of delight.
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Posted by Brad Weeks, MD on January 19, 2010
Article by Dr. Weeks – 1989
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My Honey
Recently, both Time and Newsweek reported a Chinese burn cure made from bee products including raw honey. They reported that fifty thousand Chinese burn patients have been treated with a honey salve in China’s national Burn Treatment Center. “Photographs document the progress of patients who have [...]
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Posted by Brad Weeks, MD on January 15, 2010
Corrective Cancer Care
Posted by Brad Weeks, MD on March 5, 2004
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Corrective Cancer Care
The Problem with Conventional Cancer Treatment
Nowhere does modern medicine fail patients so much as in oncology when the pathologist, after having only examined a tiny cluster of stained cells under a microscope, presumes to give a diagnosis as well as a [...]
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Posted by Brad Weeks, MD on November 29, 2009
The True History of the “Bialy”
Long before New York City and her delis existed; in fact, many centuries before the Exodus from Egypt and Moses’s descent from the summit of Sinai, Bard St. Clair, a hard working poet and semi-retired master gourmet chef whose notoriety had swelled due to his recent career-capping invention of the [...]
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Posted by Brad Weeks, MD on November 22, 2009
Dr. Weeks’ Comment: Are you feeling your soul becoming somewhat black and blue? Melancholia (dark bile) gives a black mood and the blues – well the blues ain’t fun!
Read about Seasonal Affective Disorder – SAD – which hits us when the days get dark and the moods sink low.
SAD
As a psychiatrist, one way I [...]
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Posted by Brad Weeks, MD on November 22, 2009
Dr. Weeks Comment: This review of the scientific literature was published in the Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine (JOM) vol 18, 2003 pp 131-145
vitamin A/ Beta-Carotene - “A OK” by me….
INTRODUCTION, APOLOGY AND DEFINITION OF TERMS
In our reductionistic habit of thought, we tend to isolate substances, call them names, split them apart again and [...]
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Posted by Dave Budge on October 10, 2009
This cartoon was published in 1992 but seems oddly appropriate for today’s debate on health care reform.
Funny eh?
Now (after you have had a good chuckle) please consider this cartoon to be a dire warning about the government further insinuating itself between doctor and patient.
We at the Weeks Clinic for Corrective Medicine and Psychiatry www.weeksmd.com are [...]
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Posted by Brad Weeks, MD on October 4, 2009
While it is not my style to insist or to persuade people to strive for health, nonetheless, I collected pearls to share with all the Friends of the Weeks Clinic. It is my hope that these general recommendations might inform and empower you and your loved ones towards greater possibilities of [...]
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Posted by Brad Weeks, MD on October 4, 2009
Dr. Weeks Comment: I wrote this essay almost 2 decades ago (1994) and the scientific research supporting this safe, effective and cheap remedy gets stronger and stronger every day. I am not talkign about beta-carotene or just any vitamin A, but specifically the palmitate form is key. Our patients keep in their First Aid [...]
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Posted by Brad Weeks, MD on August 27, 2009
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In 1991 I wrote an article about the toxicity of most skin care products. Here is is – still current! Then and now, the best thing you can do for your skin is to DRINK good quality water – at least 1/2 your weight in ounces a day – but drink it away [...]
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